Category: News

Hot on the heals of the Egham-by-Runnymede Historical Society’s 50th anniversary last year, 2018 is The Egham Museum’s 50th anniversary! This is no coincidence – as many people will know, The Egham Museum was founded Read more…

Last Friday, on 1st December 2017, friends, volunteers, Trustees and Patrons of Egham Museum gathered for the Christmas Annual Reception. For the first half an hour or so guests helped themselves to canapes and wine whilst Read more…

Egham Museum is proud to present a new exhibition: Leacrofts, Cowell, Egham: A Woman in a Man’s World. It focuses on Roberta Cowell, the first woman in the UK to have undergone male-to-female gender reassignment Read more…

Things are moving quickly here on the Suffrage in Egham project! As well as our Crafty Days coming up (see our Facebook event for more information), we are filling our Autumn events calendar and have Read more…

Last month we announced the news that the Museum had been successful in securing a grant from Arts Council England to deliver ‘Suffrage in Egham: History through the Arts’. We are now looking to recruit a Read more…

Over the past few months, Egham Museum has been bringing its records up to date for full public access. As part of this programme, Margaret, a museum volunteer, has created a wonderful online timeline that Read more…

Currently on show at Egham Museum is a new exhibition linking the old with the new. Students at Strode’s College were given artefacts from Egham’s history to draw inspiration from. The results varied from a Read more…

Last week the museum welcomed The Revd Dr Graham St.John-Willey, The Grand Chaplain-General of The Grand Priory of Wales. Dr St.John-Willey supported the development of the fantastic Magna Carta Embroideries created by Rhoda Nevins to commemorate the 800th Read more…

Last week we announced the news that the Museum had been successful in securing a grant from Arts Council England to deliver ‘Suffrage in Egham: History through the Arts‘. We are now looking to recruit Read more…

Egham Museum, in partnership with Royal Holloway University of London, and Egham Town Team, are to launch an exciting new summer Arts and Heritage Festival in 2018 with the inaugural theme of Women’s Suffrage, marking Read more…

Our temporary exhibition, ‘The Plague Comes to Egham’ is due to end on Thursday 11th May 2017, so there’s still time to ‘catch it’ before it leaves! We’ve had lots of educational fun while the Read more…

Our summer exhibition, ‘Our Changing High Streets’ being held at the United Church in Egham from Wednesday 14th June until Tuesday 20th June, has been greatly helped by a successful Members Grant from Surrey County Councillor Read more…

VOTE FOR US ON WEDNESDAY 26th APRIL: more details will be posted on www.whenyouworkatamuseum.com. Here at Egham Museum, in between caring for the collection, planning projects and exhibitions, working with the community, and sharing the stories of Read more…

For belated #MuseumPics day I thought I would introduce the wonderful people working behind the scenes at our museum, who are cataloguing the collection records for a more modern audience. Cataloguing is a major focus Read more…

As part of our ‘Migration & Memory’ Heritage Lottery Funded project, not only have we produced an award-winning ‘Bronze Age Runnymede: Excavations at Runnymede Bridge‘ documentary, we are now pleased to launch our learning resources for Read more…